First Lieutenant Carl Elliot graduated OCS Class 136, 3rd Student Training Regiment Fort Benning, Georgia, 26 December 1942. Subsequent assignments were: 1943 -  Hq. Co, lst Bn., 313th Regt, 79th Inf., Division; CO, Pioneer Platoon, Second Lieutenant, Camp Blanding, Florida; Tennessee Maneuver Area, Camp Forrest, Tennessee; Suffered training injury, 11 August 1943; Hospitalized Camp Forrest and at Lawson General Hospital until Dec. 1944; First Lieutenant, U.S. Inf. Asst. Intelligence Officer and Intelligence Officer on staff of General Wallace C. Philoon, CG, Inf. Repl. Tng. Center, Fort. McClellan, Alabama. Retired for physical disability 23 September 1944 at Fort McClellan, Alabama.